When you wake up to hearing that the American people have decided against rape as a political policy, that working classes should be represented, that prohibition is stupid, that equality should be for all people regardless and that we have another 4 years of an improving, worthwhile growth as a nation; it renews your faith in the people and this country. It's morning in America and I couldn't be happier.

Mentat:The only thing that saved the GOP last night was redistricting.

Lost in this: 20-year incumbent (and Tea Partier - the guy once compared government-backed student loans to the Holocaust) Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) was defeated by John Delaney (D-MD). I guess it remains to be seen where Delaney's politics lie - he's the son of union laborers, but made his fortune in business - but this is good for Montgomery County.

Bartlett was also the "victim" of redistricting. I won't argue that it probably helped them on balance, but there are other wins.

Allen West was unhinged. He accused Democratic Congresspeople of being literally card-carrying communists. Like that even happens nowadays. Good riddance. The average IQ of washington just went up a point.

Minnesota is a weird farking state. Urban St. Paul/Minneapolis is dark, dark blue. Rural Minnesota is light blue. Sandwhiched between them is suburbia St. Paul, so deep red they keep re-electing a Congresswoman too DERP for even Iowa GOP Primary voters to stomach.

sammyk:Anybody find a list of how the 2010 teaparty freshmen did? I'm hoping for a whole lot of one and done.

In Florida, Allen West (Palm Beach) lost. His 2012 district was mostly new to him.Dan Webster (Orlando) was a freshman but I wouldn't call him a tea partier. He narrowly got to stay, in a district that was more favorable to R's than the one he was elected into in 2010. The guy he knocked out in 2010, Grayson, is now in a new neighboring district.Dennis A. Ross (Brandon-Lakeland) is a Tea Partier, and he was unchallenged. If the Democrats had gotten someone to run, they probably would have put a lot of money behind that person, the way they put a lot of money behind their unsuccessful attempt to knock out Webster.In the Panhandle, a Republican freshman got to stay. Don't know if he's more like Ross or more like Webster.

So by my count FL was sending 2 tea partiers to congress and is now only sending 1.

Mentat:The only thing that saved the GOP last night was redistricting.

And they've got that locked down for another 4 cycles. It'll take a rout like 2006 to see another Dem majority in the House. Which is completely backwards because the Senate is structurally favored for Republicans.

somedude210:When you wake up to hearing that the American people have decided against rape as a political policy, that working classes should be represented, that prohibition is stupid, that equality should be for all people regardless and that we have another 4 years of an improving, worthwhile growth as a nation; it renews your faith in the people and this country. It's morning in America and I couldn't be happier.

Good morning, America. I missed you.

When I think about how the idiots doubled down on their rape derp, it makes me that much happier.

OutLawSuit:At least Bachmann will be a source of amusement for the next 2 years. She's harmless at this point.

Bachmann is not harmless, she would spout her idiotic venom as eithe a congress person or former congress person. Idiots listen to her and see America slipping away from them, it is not unbelievable that they may use violence to keep 'their country'.

Redistricting greatly helped Democrats in Florida. Still too many seats with 75% democrats due to racial issues, but more competition in the other seats than before. Democrats gained one seat from reapportionment (Grayson) and flipped two seats in south Florida for a net gain of 3.

Other states should implement Florida's redistricting amendments, without the references to race.

Minnesota is a weird farking state. Urban St. Paul/Minneapolis is dark, dark blue. Rural Minnesota is light blue. Sandwhiched between them is suburbia St. Paul, so deep red they keep re-electing a Congresswoman too DERP for even Iowa GOP Primary voters to stomach.

I think you mean St. Cloud, not St. Paul. STP is urban, educated and not herpty derpty

Mentat: The only thing that saved the GOP last night was redistricting.

And they've got that locked down for another 4 cycles. It'll take a rout like 2006 to see another Dem majority in the House. Which is completely backwards because the Senate is structurally favored for Republicans.

And that's the real tragedy of 2010. Of all the years for Democrats to throw a hissy fit, they chose a census year.

Esc7:Allen West was unhinged. He accused Democratic Congresspeople of being literally card-carrying communists. Like that even happens nowadays. Good riddance. The average IQ of washington just went up a point.